Common Lemon Candy
- Take three pounds of coarse, brown sugar; add to it three teacups full of water, and set it over a slow fire for half an hour; put to it a little gum Arabic, dissolved in hot water: this is to clear it. Continue to take off the scum as long as any rises. When perfectly clear, try it by dipping a pipe-stem first into it, and then into cold water, or by taking a spoonful of it into a saucer; if it is done, it will snap like glass. Flavor with essence of lemon, and cut it in sticks.